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Title Surviving the future : abolitionist queer strategies / edited by Scott Branson, Raven Hudson, and Bry Reed ; foreword by Mimi Thi Nguyen.

Publication Info. Oakland, CA : PM Press, [2023]

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 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  306.76 SUR    DUE 04-20-24
Description xiii, 307 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Foreword / Mimi Thi Nguyen -- Betraying institutions / Scott Branson --
Land and water: Blacknes and indigeneity. Telling "Our Stories": Black and Indigenous abolitionists (De)narrativizing the carceral state / E. Ornelas -- Sovereignty imperiled: Blackness and "unsovereign" indigeneity / Che Gossett -- Claiming alterity: Black, gender, and queer resistance to classification / Zaria El-Fil -- Feeling unsentimental: Black essentiality and queer black questioning of the human / Zuri Arman --
COVID-19 and queerness. Seeing queerness in the time of COVID-19 / Kitty Stryker -- When "fitting in" is bad for our health / Adrian Shanker -- The end of gay history, or This is not the world we asked for / Yasmin Nair -- Interlude: Dispatch from the uprising. Things that make me feel less lonely / Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore --
Abolish cities, prisons, universities, and the state. The question of planning: transformation, abolition, and queer space / Darian Razdar -- Unconditional abolition: ending state violence against people with sex offenses / Amalia Golomb-Leavitt, Ryan Becker, and Rebecca Valeriano-Flores -- Adding insult to injury: a case study of the institutional weaponization of white queerness / Raxtus Bracken -- Refusing queer settler colonialism in Canada: history and trajectories of a movement / Kai Rajala --
Reportbacks from militant queers. "Gay shame hates everything": anarcho-trans/queer politics against neocolonial conquest / Stasha lampert and Toshio Meronek -- How to survive without assimilating: resisting pinkwashing and antisemitism / Beth Bruch and Sandra Y.L. Korn -- Forgotten on the front lines: past and present Black queer invisibility in Black liberation movements / Yold Yolande Delius --
Queer archives. Exceeding survival: militant memory as a praxis of Black feminist, anarchist world-making / aems dinunzio -- The figa / Jonesy and Jaime Knight -- Into history and out of quarantine: a reparative poet's survival kit / Scott Chalupa --
Making queerness. How to queer the grammar of the body by eating bread / Cassius Kelly and emet ezell -- Ways of seeing: radical queerness / Jamie Theophilos -- Genderless Siberia / Wripley Marie Bennet.
Summary "Surviving the Future is a collection of the most current ideas in radical queer movement work and revolutionary queer theory. Beset by a new pandemic, fanning the flames of global uprising, these queers cast off progressive narratives of liberal hope while building mutual networks of rebellion and care. These essays propose a militant strategy of queer survival in an ever precarious future. Starting from a position of abolition--of prisons, police, the State, identity, and racist cisheteronormative society--this collection refuses the bribes of inclusion in a system built on our expendability. Though the mainstream media saturates us with the boring norms of queer representation (with a recent focus on trans visibility), the writers in this book ditch false hope to imagine collective visions of liberation that tell different stories, build alternate worlds, and refuse the legacies of racial capitalism, anti-Blackness, and settler colonialism. The work curated in this book spans Black queer life in the time of COVID-19 and uprising, assimilation and pinkwashing settler colonial projects, subversive and deviant forms of representation, building anarchist trans/queer infrastructures, and more. Contributors include Che Gossett, Yasmin Nair, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Adrian Shanker, Kitty Stryker, Toshio Meronek, and more."--Amazon.com.
Subject Queer theory.
Gay liberation movement.
Minority gays -- Philosophy.
Sexual minorities -- Philosophy.
Sexual minorities, Black -- Philosophy.
African American sexual minorities -- Philosophy.
LGBTQ+ people of color.
Queer people of color.
Black LGBTQ+ people.
Black queer people.
Queer movement.
Genre/Form Essays.
Added Author Branson, Scott, 1981- editor.
Hudson, Raven, editor.
Reed, Bry, editor.
Nguyen, Mimi Thi, 1974- writer of introductory text.
Added Title Abolitionist queer strategies
ISBN 9781629639710 paperback
1629639710
9781629639864 ePub ebook
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